journey: In signing the ITV deal Steve Norris, the former transport minister who chairs the park's developer London Resort Company Holdings, promised the broadcaster it was going on an epic journey . It already has been, according to The Guardian. Unveiled in the post-Olympic euphoria of late 2012, the plan to create a theme park three times larger than any in the UK, located in the south-east of England to complete the cross channel rivalry with Disneyland Paris, caught the imagination. But the backers of the London Resort, planned for a peninsula in north Kent, are struggling with film and TV partners walking away and increasing disillusioned locals. A tie-up with Hollywood studio Paramount Pictures led to concept images of rides and attractions based on mega-hits such as Mission Impossible, Star Trek and even The Italian Job. The London Resort map The London Resort map Fast-forward seven years and Paramount Pictures has disappeared, pulling out in 2017; so too Aardman Animations, the studio behind Wallace & Gromit, Chicken Run and Shaun the Sheep, which allowed a licensing deal for attractions based on its characters to lapse. The park, financed by Kuwait's Al-Humaidi family, who own Ebbsfleet United, would open in 2019, the developers said.
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